OMG....So the diet program I am participating in has an online support group. We were told that we can go there for encouragement and advice, recipes, etc. So I go check it out and my reaction is a sudden burning sensation in my throat and a nauseated roll in my stomach. I can not believe what I am reading.
"It is just the greatest diet ever!"
"Everything tastes SOOOOO GOOOD!"
"This is so easy, I just can't believe it!!"
On and on and on the sap poured, from every line, every word, every syllable. Yuck!
I stared at my screen in confusion and frustration. All these people were farting skittles while dancing on sun streaked clouds under the rainbow of joy and happiness. Umm where were the people that felt like me? Like crap and were hungry and found the food tolerable but missed real food? Where were the people who stared at a forbidden treat and actually fought with themselves to the point of lunacy about whether to just take a bite? Where were the people that felt one snapped moment away from ripping the happy smile off the face of the next person who said "It is easy you can do it! Who needs food to have fun?" and shoving it up there skittle popping portal?
There aren't any happy go lucky rainbows in my neck of the woods. I'm not gonna lie, a diet isn't easy. Change isn't easy. I know I have new habits to make and old habits to break, but if I am expected to be happy Joe sunshine the whole freakin' time you have got to be kidding me. Is the weight loss and the rewards of weight loss worth pushing through? Yes. But it is pushing. Pushing and falling and getting up and trying again and learning....a freakin' struggle the whole way up (or down I guess.)
My support group comment "This is real life. You have to live this diet to get your life back. It is tough, a real struggle some days, but it is worth it. Push through the tough because YOU are worth it." No rainbows no sparkles no skittles.
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